🚨 Arsene Wenger on Lionel Messi's hat-trick and becoming the World Cup's all time leading goalscorer:
🗣“What we witnessed today goes beyond another record. It is the continuation of a career that has consistently redefined the standards of excellence in football.
It wasn't simply a hat-trick,it was the quality of the goals, the intelligence behind every decision, and the efficiency with which Messi influenced the game. Those are the qualities that separate truly exceptional players from the rest.
For many years people have tried to compare Messi with other great footballers, but there comes a point where comparisons lose their meaning. He has built a legacy that stands on its own.
What fascinates me most is his evolution. I genuinely don't know whether the young Messi, with his explosive pace and dribbling, was better than the experienced Messi we see today, who controls every moment of the game with his intelligence and understanding. Very few players improve with age the way he has.
The emotion after his second goal revealed another side of his greatness. It reminded everyone of the difficult journey he has had with Argentina,the disappointments, the criticism, and the perseverance that eventually led to glory. That emotional connection with his country continues to drive him.
To score his first World Cup hat trick while becoming the tournament's all time leading goalscorer is an extraordinary achievement. It is another milestone in a career that already seemed impossible to improve.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is his longevity. He finished the 2022 World Cup by lifting the trophy after scoring twice in the final, and he has opened the 2026 tournament with a hattrick. At almost 39 years of age, he continues to perform with the same clarity, technical quality, and love for the game that defined him in his twenties.
That is the mark of a truly timeless footballer.”
This might be the CRAZIEST stat of the World Cup...
Cape Verde had more possession against Spain than Arsenal did against PSG in the Champions League final. 🤯🇨🇻
Alisson is the most disrespected footballer of all time after Salah.
92nd on the greatest ever LFC players is an absolute joke. Who did this list 🫢
I'm 37 years supporting LFC & he is comfortably the best goalkeeper I've seen.
His signing was the real game changer.
He is arguably the greatest goalkeeper of all time definitely the best LFC keeper.
I'd have him in the top 10.
And absolutely delighted he looks like staying, id give him another 3 year contract. 33 is young for a keeper👍
I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed
I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.
He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️
The drinking water and human life lines 🤣
No shots on goal for two hours after the fifth minute, averaged about two passes a minute, one of the most shameful cowardly performances ever seen in a Champions League final. Played for penalties and got what they deserved.
This week alone:
DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.
The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.
The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.
Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.
It’s just Thursday.
The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.
Seriously guys, whatever happened to:
• the DOGE checks
• tariff checks
• the Greenland hospital boat
• 10% APR on credit cards
• my meds being 1500% cheaper
• $2 gas
• the Epstein files
• reopening the Strait of Hormuz that was already open
• cheaper groceries
• ending wars in 24 hours
• the “privately funded” ballroom
Any updates?
Arne Slot is a Premier League title winner, yes, but the conditions for that triumph have disappeared.
There are mitigations, yes, but Liverpool are no longer a team to fear, they are deferential, and obliging to the most embattled of sides.
It’s not just the style of play that is unrecognisable, but what the team stands for, and how they are seen…
https://t.co/B7aeamowJj
These must be the end times, because Christians are actively idol worshipping a guy who exhibits ZERO morals, who bombed a school with over 100 children, who protects pedophiles, and is fighting with the Pope.
What the actual fuck, people?
🔥🇺🇸BOMBSHELL: The US and Iran are close to a 14-point deal.
The terms:
Iran pauses uranium enrichment.
US lifts sanctions and releases frozen funds.
Both sides reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
12-15 year moratorium on Iranian nuclear weapons.
30-day negotiation period begins.
Sound familiar?
It should.
This is Obama’s Iran deal.
The JCPOA.
The same deal Trump called the worst deal ever made.
The same deal he tore up in 2018.
$25 billion spent.
Thousands dead.
A UAE oil port on fire.
Oil at $119 a barrel.
To get back to where we started.
Never stop connecting the dots.
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Scholes: "I am not saying Arsenal don't deserve it. My only point is I don't enjoy watching them. They are not a team where I think: 'f*ckin hell, brilliant team..' Even Liverpool last year I was like: "f*ckin hell, good team..' I just don't see that with Arsenal. I don't tune on my TV to watch them all the time."
— The Overlap
The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.
We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.
What happened to Trump’s billionaire buddies footing this bill for his $400,000,000 ballroom? Get loud about the fact that Senate Republicans are now proposing that TAXPAYERS pay for Trump’s vanity project!